[vive-la-liberte]

The first release of D was in 2001. That's 15, not 5, years ago.

[bluejekyll]

Though, what I find odd is that for me (and yes that is an extremely small sample) I barely heard of D until people started wondering why rust was being picked over D.

[pjmlp]

D has always been well known in the C++ community given its authors.